After the Reddit administration has still not withdrawn the API decision, a massive protest has started in all communities, from the largest to the smallest.
Reddit, one of the rare platforms where the whole world comes together, has been criticized for days with its decision to put third-party applications in trouble. While the Reddit management did not withdraw the step they took by facing the criticism, they will be on the platform from today. a big protest started.
Thousands of communities are ‘shaking’ their visibility on Reddit.Hidden‘ he began to do. Thus, what has been and will be done on Reddit hundreds of thousands of shares now only viewed by members of this community. As a result, the interaction within the platform drops to a minimum.
More than 6,000 Reddit communities joined the protest!
The number of communities participating in the protest on the “reddark_247” channel on Twitch, which lively shares the communities participating in the protest on Reddit over 6000As of now, it’s close to 6300. Let’s remind you that there are 7266 communities in total on Reddit.
Here are some of the large communities that took part in the protest:
- r/funny (over 40 million members)
- r/aww (more than 30 million members)
- r/gaming (more than 30 million members)
- r/Music (more than 30 million members)
- r/science (more than 30 million members)
- r/todayilearned (more than 30 million members)
- r/gadgets (over 20 million members)
- r/space (more than 20 million members)
- r/videos (over 20 million members)
- r/creepy (more than 10 million members)
- r/InternetIsBeautiful (more than 10 million members)
- r/tifu (more than 10 million members)
How has Reddit been affected by communities being private?
With the conversion of these communities to secret societies, Reddit values with 458 million shares, 5.7 billion comments, 66 million user posts and a total of 102 billion karmaturned completely inward.
It should be kept in mind that Reddit is a platform where communities also interact with each other, thus allowing for even more sharing and interaction.
The protest will last 48 hours.
What was the decision that started the protest on Reddit?
Reddit has made its API paid, which has been used by third-party application developers for free until now. The most popular app affected by this decision was Apolllo, a much more streamlined alternative to Reddit’s main app.
Apollo with API edit 20 million dollars a year had been convicted. Application developers have announced that they will close their applications for this reason.
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